RIYADH: Health authorities in Saudi Arabia on Thursday (Friday in Manila) announced the deaths of another three people from the MERS respiratory virus, taking the country’s toll to 160.

The health ministry’s daily bulletin on the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome outbreak in the Gulf nation said the latest people to die were two women aged 72 and 54, and a 63-year-old man.

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